Museo della Reale Accademia di Mantova
A Mantuan museum catalogue of the Reale Accademia Virgiliana's antiquities, compiled by Giovanni Labus and published at Mantua in 1837 by d'Arco and Negretti for scholars and collectors of classical sculpture and inscriptions. Its plates are engraved portraits of Roman busts shown head and shoulders against plain grounds, with labels and captions beneath, and a designer might take from them the calm, formal conventions of classical bust portraiture and the spare hatching of line engraving.
